What does that have to do with search engines?

"If you wanted to get a free IBM 3270 terminal then you should have been there 20 years ago when the hospital threw away a dumpster-full." --Captain Hindsight

I remember Archie. And Veronica. And I just got the references after all these years.

I bought one. A week later my wife spilled soda on it. Turned out it was pretty much impossible to salvage. I was disappointed by it's lack of servicability vs. a real Model M. You spend that kind of money on a keyboard you might expect it to survive a soda or at least be repairable.

I can confirm from experience that an IBM 3270 terminal is practically indestructable. Standing on a loading dock I picked one up over my head and threw it as hard as I could down into an empty metal dumpster at ground level. The result? A small crack in the housing.

THIS! And poverty is pretty closely linked to being DESCENDED FROM SLAVES. Africa had advanced societies before Europeans went in there and fucked everything up and kidnapped half of everybody (sometimes with the African leadership's consent but two wrongs don't make a right). The you got Jim Crow and various other social atrocities. "Hey I know lets stack the socioeconomic deck against the blacks and then blame them for not pulling themselves up by their bootstraps! Heheheh".

Obamacare subsidies are based on your MAGI, which is your AGI with some other income that only rich people have added back (dividends?), so for most people it's your AGI. AGI is your gross income minus business expenses and some other things (but not taxes, including self employment taxes). It's all on page 1 of form 1040.

No, I think I was just really paying the market rate for a reasonable plan. It WAS good coverage. It wasn't catestrophic, it didn't have a cap.

It's a significant difference for somebody trying to feed three dependents on one income on a tight budget, so yes I am complaining. That extra $3840 isn't just going to fly out of my ass. Also Bruce said he had coverage through his wife.

While that might lower my tax burden, I don't think it would affect my subsidy eligibility. It would just move the income from 1040 box 12 to 1040 box 13 or something. My MAGI and hence subsidy eligibility would remain unchanged.

Old plan: https://swp.mvphealthcare.com/...

New Plan, closest to old plan AFAICT: http://www.discovermvp.com/con...

A big part of the difference is the cost of covering my kids. On the old plan, they were covered at a MUCH lower rate than my wife and I, only $121/mo. On the new plan it's pretty much the same for all of us, $400. To add insult to injury if I made somewhat less each year my kids would qualify for Dr. Dynasaur (VT expanded medicare for kids) which would be only $60/mo and of course my wife and I could get federal subidies for our coverage but then I couldn't pay my other bills. It's a catch 22. I'm glad somebody's getting something good out of obama care because I feel like I'm getting taken out to the woodshed. My only hope is that Vermont rolls out single payer on schedule and it sucks less.

VT has had relatively strict health insurance laws for some time. E.g. vermont insurers cannot discriminate by prexisting conditions if the customer has had continuous coverage. If you let your coverage drop you're screwed though. Well that's changed now I suppose.

Hi Bruce,

I also have my own company, with one employee. I have been purchasing coverage on the private market for my family of 4 for about $880 / mo. Now that plan is being cancelled by my insurance company because it's not grandfathered. To purchase an equivalent plan through my state exchange is going to cost about $1200 mo. I make just enough that I don't qualify for meaningful subsidies, and being self employed my subsidy eligibility doesn't take into account my huge self employment tax burden. So I am left with the unpalatable options of going with a crappy "bronze" plan with a huge deductable, or having to spend spend an extra $320/mo for the the coverage I already have. If the new state plan is "better" in some way than my old coverage it's not obvious to me how. I'm sorry you had so many issues signing up for private insurance, but for me it seems like ObamaCare is a significant net loss.

It's a "Small-waterplane-area twin hull" or SWATH, not a catamaran. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...

The lawsuit cost them a trifle and they won an important precident for their industry. And the PR campain went on for decades and achieved jack squat. Entergy made it clear they couldn't care less about it. These are not the reasons they closed.

Like I said. The real reason it closed is economics. Nothing else really mattered. If they thought the plant would turn a profit they would surely continue to operate it.

Entergy is shutting it down because it's unprofitable. It's purely by choice. The state's efforts to shut it down were thrown out in court.